The words look good in pen, but sound better from my mouth

ReD · Oct 10, 2017

Yoka laughed. She enjoyed her laugh, tilting her head back and wrapping her fingers around the stem of her glass while she indulged herself in this moment. This was fun. This was why she liked Steven. He was sharp, she knew that, and quick thinking, but she enjoyed his observations on things like this. He had a good way of blending humor with realism.

"Yeah, that's true enough," Yoka said. She ran her fingers around the edge of her glass and listened while he talked. She considered what he said, sucking on her bottom lip while she considered it.

"Have you considered it?" Yoka asked. "Looking for a way to be immortal, I mean?"

She nodded on the subject of Murphy. She was relieved he was okay as well, although Yoka couldn't really turn off that lingering persistent worry.

"It's not really my place to divulge his powers, but they're....well, they do about what you saw," she said, frowning. "It makes having him as an employee a little bit scary. I like to assume he'll be okay."

The bartender brought them both their second round. Yoka waved him for a third.

"Keep them coming," she said. "We need to see how many this lad here can handle."

She grinned at him.

"So how many do you think that you can handle?" Yoka asked.

Steven · Oct 13, 2017

Steven hadn't really though about it seriously, but mused to himself a little on the spot. "It's an interesting thought." Steven said aloud. "However I don't think it is something to take lightly. Immortality is a diverse thing, some making you give up certain things in life or require energy of other. Even true immortality with no cost would be worrying cause of the eventual mental strain on a human mind. It is enviable but not something i'd count on." Steven said.

Taking his second drink when it arrived and taking a large gulp he laughed. "Like take some form of immortality, I might not even be able to taste this drink let allow get drunk." He said. "I might only be able to handle 4 or 5 before starting to get impaired but at least I can enjoy it." Both answering her second question but reinforcing his view on immortality.

ReD · Oct 16, 2017

Yoka listened with interest while Steven mused allowed. She nodded occasionally, took a sip of her drink now and then, but her attention was on his words.

It would be easy to assume this was something Yoka practiced, a skill honed from years of working in the sex industry, but it was genuine. Yoka enjoyed listening to those who gave her the honor of their company.

"I think that makes you more mature than most young men your age," Yoka remarked. She leaned back in her chair again, eyeing Steven with a different sort of interest. "If you could have any one wish, then, what would you pick?"

She grinned at Steven and the bartender a moment later and said, "And you can't wish for more alcohol because that's a given. Another round, please."

Steven · Nov 3, 2017

Steven chuckled at the seemingly random question, before scratching his chin in thought. "So I can't wish for more alcohol, but you say nothing of more wishes." He pointed out and laughed a little again. "I'll take that one as a given, shall I." He added making it clear, that wouldn't be his answer. He was a little lost for ideas. There were many things he could think to wish for, but they were all things that were possible to get without such magic if he really aimed for them. With knowing that there were demons, angels and all magical creatures in between now. It only seemed right to thin of a wish that would otherwise be impossible. You never know, maybe there was someone on this island who could grant it after all.

"I think have something. Probably the ability to enter and leave the worlds of fiction at will, and be immune to harm while in them." Steven finally answered, not exactly the most selfless wish in the world but he was sure that he could not only get a huge amount of enjoyment of seeing the worlds he had only read about, but some of the knowledge he could bring from them could probably help other as well. "how about yourself?"

ReD · Nov 13, 2017

Yoka was surprised by Steven's answer.

This is why she liked humans, she mused as the bartender brought them another drink. Yoka took a slow sip of hers. She was constantly surprised. Five hundred and seventeen years and Yoka was still learning new things about people in her lives.

"Would you age while in the story?" Yoka wondered aloud.

She was almost ashamed that her own wish was so obvious and boring in comparison. "I will take immortality," she said, but then, after another moment, Yoka confessed. "I would be a god and I would make a world as I see fit. It would be like a terrarium, I suppose. I don't think I would be a very good god, though."

She took another sip and asked, "What story would you enter first?"

Steven · Nov 28, 2017

Steven thought to himself about the questions wondering on the pros and cons of different views. "I would have to say no to aging. Would effectively let me be immortal but with none of the theoritical down side once I returned to the real world." He awnsered. "I doubt I would be the best god either I doubt many would be. I'm sure I'd be better then many though." Steven added in response to her comments on godhood.

"As for what book to enter first, I honestly have no idea there are huge amount to choose from after all." Steven scratched his chin. "Perhaps the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher."

ReD · Dec 12, 2017

Yoka nodded and then laughed.

"Yeah, there could be a lot of downsides to that,' she said. She considered his responses. To his comment about the book series, Yoka asked, "Is that the one with the wizards who can't be around technology?"

She had listened to a Dresden Files audiobook on a flight once and rather enjoyed that she'd been awake to listen to.

Yoka drummed her fingers on the counter and then said, "Okay. Let's say this: You could put someone else in a book of your choosing. What book would you put me into?"

Steven · Mar 20, 2018

"Different series, same author." Steven replied. "The one you're thinking of I'm oddly not that keen on. Just couldn't get into even though I loved his other work." He explained scratching his chin. "I guess i always was more prone to traditional fantasy rather then modern ones. Funny seeing as I piratically live in one now. " He said with a slight chuckle, which was true go back a year or two and Steven would have told you that magic was joke.

"That's a strange yet interesting question." He said thinking to himself though different book series. "How about...Discworld, Terry Pratchett. I think it over the top parody like nature, satirical narrative would positively drive you insane after awhile." He said trying to hold a straight face, but a small grin starting to show through.

ReD · Mar 22, 2018

"It looks like I have some reading to do then," Yoka said. She patted his knee with her hand, enjoying the feeling of someone real and tangible beneath her finger tips. Yoka considered this.

"I have lived outside of the veil," she said. "But I was never ordinary."

Yoka was born a fox, after all. She did not have a childhood comparative to humans. She suspected, if she pressed the issue, that it was probably why she did not enjoy children.

"But I've lived plenty of lives there, as a human, and do you know what the scariest part of that was?" Yoka asked. She tapped her foot into the air, her long leg dangling over the chair like a fishing lure.

"It was so easy to forget this is real," she said. "If I wasn't magical, if I wasn't immortal, once I left here I'd miss it, of course, but it's so easy to get wrapped up in the mundane. Of filing taxes and attending luncheons and all of that nonsense."

She frowned.

"I thought it would be lifechanging. What do you think? DO you think you'll look for another magical home? or go back to the real world?"

Steven · Mar 23, 2018

Steven smiled as she mentioned needed to read more, ad patted his knee. He would never be disappointed at the idea of encouraging another person to read more. Steven wasn't quite expected the sudden tone shift of the conversation that followed however. The way she spoke about it, he wasn't quite sure those lives outside of this island she talked about were happy one or not. Though he could understand the concept of getting caught up in the mundane things in life. Even humans outside of the veil had the problem themselves, so focused on work, taxes, celebrities or the latest trends, most didn't even think about the outcome of major events in the world and only reacted when there were scary headlines in the paper or on the news.

For him though, Steven couldn't forget how his life had changed now he knew about what was once hidden. "I'm honestly not sure, I couldn't even afford somewhere to live back home if I wanted to anyway. But I don't think I could ever forget the magical and supernatural nature of the world." Steven replied, patting down his pocket and pulling out a box of cigarette. Sliding one out and lighting it with a small flame from his finger tips. "It can make life some much simpler by function. I think though I'll be here for quite some time, and hopefully here you won't feel the need to make a new life just to avoid arousing normal peoples suspicions." He said taking a large drag from the cigarette.

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